District News

EPISD campuses celebrated the work done by the thousands of professional educators who work to provide high-quality instruction to the children of the District by selecting a campus Teacher of the Year. Congrats!

Franklin New Tech music teacher Stefan Schyga is featured in the Sweetwater’s Music Educators Technology Resource spring catalogue as a shinning example of the impact technology can have on music instruction. Congratulations!

EPISD remains committed to having graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2020. With the help of the community in flattening the infection curve, new dates for this summer have been scheduled for the ceremonies. Ceremonies will be contingent to health guidelines.

A second EPISD food-services employee who worked at the Logan Elementary meal distribution site has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and is now in quarantine, District officials announced today. The employee is asymptomatic and has been in insolation at home since Friday.

Seniors from Franklin High School and Silva Health Magnet received the prestigious Terry Scholarship for full-rides at Texas A&M and Texas A&M-Galveston universities. They join four other EPISD seniors who received Terry Scholarships to UTEP.

EPISD Community Schools staff and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers will be distributing canned goods, dried foods and fresh food from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays throughout the school closure for up to 500 families beginning tomorrow.

The El Paso Independent School District was notified today that a Food Service employee who works at Logan Elementary has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee is currently self-quarantining at home.

The pandemic-related campus closures are not keeping EPISD middle-school principals from reaching out to parents. In a series of virtual coffee and lemonade socials, the principals are meeting with parents to answer questions and address concerns about distance learning and other issues.

The staff at Bonham Elementary recently received tips on mental and emotional wellbeing as they remain at home helping students navigate virtual learning. The tips were imparted by members of EPISD's Social & Emotional Learning team.

Taxpayers in the El Paso Independent School District could save up to $10 million in debt payments after the Board of Trustees agreed this week to refinance more than $212 million from voter-approved bonds issued in prior years.

Online registration began today in the El Paso Independent School District for the 2020-21 school year. Registration is open for all returning students as well as students new to EPISD, including students enrolling for the first time in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.

Starting on Monday, April 20, EPISD will distribute meals for students on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only. The shift in schedule will reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection for families and EPISD employees.

EPISD’s Fine Arts Department launched a new Virtual Art Gallery this week to display students and employees’ creative expressions during the COVID-19 related campus closures. The collection is titled "Collective Isolation."

Ther District today launched EPISD Cares, a fundraising campaign to help El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank in their efforts to feed families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. EPISD Cares is a fund from the Paso Del Norte Community Foundation.

The EPISD Board of Trustees will have two public meetings via teleconference on Tuesday, April 14. The meetings are possible through the suspension of the Texas Open Meetings Act issued on March 16 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.